This Sunday ASUS Cup Winter 2008 will take place in 4game gaming center in Moscow.

16 CS:Source teams who have qualified to the final stage will compete for the prize pool of 4,250 EUR.

Prize pool breakdown:
1st place – 1,750 EUR
2nd place – 1,150 EUR
3rd place – 850 EUR
4th place – 500 EUR

Yesterday it was officially announced that Team Ebuyer who was expected to take part in the event will not be coming to Moscow. One of Ebuyer players Tomas 'beta' Hanna is currently bound by contract with CGS CGS's permission for beta to attend the ASUS Cup came too late for flights to be booked.

Groups:
Group "A": forZe, Empire, deathfish, 200km
Group "B": MGC, Begrip.css, Method.CSS, d.syntax
Group "C": TRAP (HDS), PinCho, Team46, CBH
Group "D": NLN-Gaming, MBK, sverd:LOVE:sk, break

First round (starts at 08:00 CET) – de_dust2:
forZe wins 20:10 Empire @ de_dust2
deathfish wins 24:06 200km @ de_dust2
MGC lose 12:18 Begrip @ de_dust2
Method.CSS wins 19:11 d.syntax @ de_dust2
TRAP draw 15:15 PinCho @ de_dust2
Team46 wins 18:12 CBH @ de_dust2
NLN wins 19:11 MBK @ de_dust2
break 17:13 sverd:LOVE:sk @ de_dust2

Second round (starts at 09:00 CET) – de_train
forZe wins 20:10 200km @ de_train
Empire wins 19:11 deathfish @ de_train
MGC wins 22:08 d.syntax @ de_train
Method.CSS lose 06:24 Begrip @ de_train
TRAP wins 18-12 CBH @ de_train
Team46 wins 18:12 PinCho @ de_train
NLN wins 22-08 sverd:LOVE:sk @ de_train
break wins 20:10 MBK @ de_train

Third round (starts at 10:00 CET) – de_nuke
forZe draw 15:15 deathfish @ de_nuke
Empire wins 25:05 200km @ de_nuke
MGC wins 22:08 Method.CSS @ de_nuke
Begrip wins 24:06 d.syntax @ de_nuke
Team46 wins 19:11 TRAP @ de_nuke
CBH lose 10:20 PinCho @ de_nuke
sverd:LOVE:sk lose 06:24 MBK @ de_nuke
NLN lose 13:17 break @ de_nuke

Two top-ranked teams from each group progress to the play-off stage played on ‘best of 3’ basis.

Quarter-finals:
1. MGC wins forZe 16:04 @ de_cpl_mill, 16:13 @ de_train
2. Team46 wins NLN 31:27 @ de_cpl_mill, 16:14 @ de_train
3. Empire wins Begrip 16:12 @ de_cpl_mill, 16:13 @ de_train,
4. PinCho wins break 16:14 @ de_cpl_mill, 16:06 @ de_train

Semi-finals:
1. MGC wins Team46 16:07 @ de_dust2, 16:02 @ de_nuke
2. PinCho lose Empire 10:16 @ de_dust2, 16:07 @ de_nuke, 12:16 @ de_cpl_mill

3rd place match:
3. Team46 wins PinCho 16:09 @ de_cpl_mill, 16:01 @ de_nuke

FINAL:
1. MGC wins Empire 16:10 @ de_train, 16:12 @ de_nuke

1st place - MGC - 1,750 EUR

2nd place - Empire - 1,150 EUR

3rd place - Team46 - 850 EUR

4rd place - PinCho - 500 EUR